Post 224 plays through hot weekend

Monday

Carmi picked up two wins and dropped one contest in a set of weekend games played in very hot and humid conditions.

Friday: Carmi 8, Princeton 7

CARMI-Tyler Thompson's walkoff drive to the left field fence gave Carmi Post 224 an exciting win over Princeton, IN Post 25.

Carmi took an early lead when Easton Stewart led off the bottom of the first with a base hit, stole second and later came around to score on an RBI single by Travis Black.

Princeton answered with a run in the top of the second but Carmi came right back in their half of the inning to go back ahead 2-1.

Princeton appeared to make a move to take control of the game in the top of the fourth when they put across four runs on four hits, a walk, and a hit batsman.

Carmi came charging right back. A double by KaCee Fulkerson got things started. Stewart’s double to left brought in Fulkerson. Andy Brinkley and Tyler Thompson reached base on a hit and a walk, with Stewart scoring on Brinkley’s hit. Black followed with a 2 RBI base hit and Carmi was back ahead 6-5.

Each team scored a run in the fifth but Princeton came back to tie it in the top of the seventh.

Carmi’s seventh inning started out promising when Fulkerson drew a walk, but after two outs he was still at first base. Up came Thompson. After Fulkerson advanced on a wild pitch, Thompson worked the count to 3-1. Third base Coach Camden Stewart told him if he liked the pitch to drive it. He must have got the pitch he was looking for and drove it to the left eld wall to bring home the win. It was Thompson’s second walk-off winner of the year.

Three Carmi players (Brinkley, Blazier and Stew- art) shared the pitching duties, with Stewart credited with the win in late relief.

Sunday:

Boonville 3, Carmi 2 (Game 1)

Carmi 10, Boonville 6 (Game 2)

BOONVILLE IN — The bats were silent in Game 1 for Carmi, but they came out booming in the second game to gain a split.

GAME 1: Carmi only managed two hits against Boonville Post 200 under blistering conditions in the opener.

Carmi scored a single run in the rst when Easton Stewart led off with a single and eventually came around to score on a wild pitch. Carmi’s other run came in the third when Tyler Thompson drew a walk, stole second and third, and was driven in on a ground-out by Brandon Skaggs.

The bats were cool the rest of the game, although Carmi did pull off a nifty 5-3-5 double play to kill off a potential rally by Boonville.

Boonville pushed across the winning run with three hits in the sixth inning to cap the 3-2 win.

GAME 2: The top of the lineup produced 9 hits, 7 runs and 4 RBI’s to lift Carmi to victory in the late afternoon game.

After manufacturing a run in the first Carmi put three on the board in the second. Evan Kieffer got things started with a base hit. He was sacrificed over by Peyton Edwards and then driven in by Stewart. Hits from Thompson and Travis Black brought in the next two runs.

Carmi was not a sharp in the eld in Game 2 ( five errors) and a couple of unearned runs in the second and one in the fourth brought the score to 4-2.

Each team scored a run in the fifth, but Carmi’s top of the lineup came through in the sixth with back-to- back triples from Stewart and Thompson. A base hit later in the inning from Cole Blazier brought in another run. Carmi went to the 7th leading 7-4 but wanted some insurance. KaCee Fulkerson got things started with a opposite eld home run. Gia Berekashvili and Ethan Mahon came through with RBI’s later in the inning to make the lead comfortable.

Thompson went the full seven innings on the mound for the victory.

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